Obamas attend National Prayer Service

1/22/13 10:59 AM EST

President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama capped off more than three days of public inaugural events Tuesday with the National Prayer Service at Washington National Cathedral.

The Obamas were joined by Vice President Joe Biden and his wife, Jill. The service includes prayers, readings, blessings and hymns delivered by religious leaders from across the country. The Rev. Adam Hamilton, founding pastor of The United Methodist Church of the Resurrection in Leawood, Kan., was selected to deliver the sermon.

The inaugural prayer service is a tradition dating back to President George Washington and has been held at the National Cathedral since Franklin Delano Roosevelt's first inauguration in 1933.

For Obama, it does not mark the end of inaugural festivities. There is one more private inaugural event scheduled later Tuesday -- an inauguration ball for staffers at the Washington Convention Center.